Katherine Duclos begins every art work with a shade palette and no plan. Inserting modular LEGO bricks one after the other, the Vancouver-based artist intuitively builds every dense composition, commencing a repetitive course of during which she introduces paint earlier than rearranging once more.
Duclos’ most up-to-date solo present, aptly titled The sunshine and shade we feature, reinforces the overarching significance of shade inside the artist’s apply. She created her current assortment throughout an important shift as she moved to a brand new dwelling together with her household. The neurodivergent artist held onto shade as a grounding drive, creating connections between the particular hues and lights she would miss in her earlier dwelling.
A assertion from the Vancouver Artwork Gallery reads:
Instances of transition and upheaval are notably tough for autistic households, and Katherine’s must order her world turned extra intense as her dwelling turned extra chaotic and the longer term appeared unclear. To higher put together herself for the modifications, she targeted on regulatory work that enabled her to really feel a way of management and order amidst the chaos.
Having disabilities with spatial processing and rotating photos causes Duclos to run into some obstacles with the diagrams and directions that accompany the normal LEGO equipment. “I never enjoyed Lego until my son handed me four flat pieces stuck together when he was 5 and said, ‘I thought you’d like these colors next to each other.’ That was my light bulb moment,” she says. Made to hold at any orientation, every vibrant amalgamation encourages motion and fluctuation regardless of the stiff, blocky nature of the fabric.
Duclos is creating work in preparation for a forthcoming solo exhibition in January subsequent 12 months. Hold tabs on her work by way of Instagram and the artist’s web site.
